Storm stuff

[Fade and Die]

My 15 year olds school is closed for the day, wind has damaged the building so it’s a health and safety precaution. Lots of happy kids walking away from school this morning!
Mums doing 3 point turns in Chelsea Tractors looking less happy ?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Saturday night we stayed over in Lincoln - very nice small hotel on Steep Street - busiest tourist street in Lincoln I guess. Sunday morning breaks wild and windy. Hardly a soul about. We walked up to the cathedral (spectacular indeed) - and around noon it was empty...bar a few lonely folks like us wandering about thinking how vast and awesome the place was, and felt, when empty...

 

[patricks148]

Saturday night we stayed over in Lincoln - very nice small hotel on Steep Street - busiest tourist street in Lincoln I guess. Sunday morning breaks wild and windy. Hardly a soul about. We walked up to the cathedral (spectacular indeed) - and around noon it was empty...bar a few lonely folks like us wandering about thinking how vast and awesome the place was, and felt, when empty...

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what are you on about.... standing room only

 

[YandaB]

Arrived home early to stop the bins being blown away only to find a large branch covering them. The branch also managed to take down the power line which in turn snapped the phone line. Could be a busy afternoon sorting it all out ?. Still, no-one hurt which is good ? and the bins are going nowhere.

 

[Russ_D]

Got up Sunday morning, wind howling and the rain blowng sideways and my 6 year old comes to me and asks "Dad, are we going to the range today?" "No son, its really windy with torential rain. Weather is too bad". He sits there thinking before replying "Yeah, but the range is covered so we wont get wet". Ah, the innocence of youth.

Later that day when the rain had died down, our neighbour who washes his car almost every day appears, in the howling wind, with his karcher washer and attempts to wash his car. Realising the water is being blown all over the place he gives up, goes inside and comes back with a spray bottle of soapy water and a cloth and proceeds to clean the car. Absolute nutter!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

what are you on about.... standing room only

Indeed - factually as well...as the ordinary folks would stand in the nave this side of the Choir Screen - with the clergy and choir seated the other side - which goes on for as long as the nave is long this side.

And there was also hardly a soul the other side of the screen as it seemed that 99% of the tourists in Lincoln had decided to stay indoors Sunday to keep out of the storm. Anyway - we were very fortunate to have almost to ourselves this quite astonishing (the best?) example of Norman and Medieval Gothic architecture in England.

 

[AmandaJR]

The company I work for manufacture concrete fence posts so every cloud and all that...

Apart from calls from disgruntled customers as some posts snapped...ummm the school next door lost it's whole roof!

 

[bobmac]

The company I work for manufacture concrete fence posts so every cloud and all that...

Apart from calls from disgruntled customers as some posts snapped...ummm the school next door lost it's whole roof!

A busy time for fence panel putter uppers

 

[Lord Tyrion]

The company I work for manufacture concrete fence posts so every cloud and all that...

Apart from calls from disgruntled customers as some posts snapped...ummm the school next door lost it's whole roof!

My SiL works for a company used by many insurance companies for tree surgery and equivalent work. Storms like this one will make their year a good one even at this stage.

Business is hard enough as it is, enjoy the boost when you get it ?

 

[AmandaJR]

Yep - it's been a really quiet 2020 so far but today was quite busy with our customers ordering in expectation of orders to come through in the coming weeks. Factories will be much happier!

 

[Deleted member 21784]

My 15 year olds school is closed for the day, wind has damaged the building so it’s a health and safety precaution. Lots of happy kids walking away from school this morning!
Mums doing 3 point turns in Chelsea Tractors looking less happy ?

my mum was shocked to hear of the closure of said school today

we are local to it (if its the school im thinking.. wont post the name for your privacy) but she is head of department at a school in upminster and there should be a caretaker on site 24/7 so how did they only make the call this morning?

unless it was damaged at 4am or something and he was asleep

 

[fundy]

stood having a chat with a neighbour earlier, started our bathroom refit today and the plumbers here so were talking about that. she also checked that we didnt have any storm damage, i pointed to the fence and said no, nothing at which point i realised 2 of the fence panels were half missing! oops!

 

[Fade and Die]

my mum was shocked to hear of the closure of said school today

we are local to it (if its the school im thinking.. wont post the name for your privacy) but she is head of department at a school in upminster and there should be a caretaker on site 24/7 so how did they only make the call this morning?

unless it was damaged at 4am or something and he was asleep

No on site caretaker, got an email this afternoon explaining that when they got to site this morning they found sheets of metal and other building materials in excess of 2Ms long. Closed again tomorrow too. It’s not apparent where it came from so they have got Havering health and safety executives (who knew?) on site investigating.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

No on site caretaker, got an email this afternoon explaining that when they got to site this morning they found sheets of metal and other building materials in excess of 2Ms long. Closed again tomorrow too. It’s not apparent where it came from so they have got Havering health and safety executives (who knew?) on site investigating.

must just be what she used to having her caretaker team on site

mental tho.. especially round here.. wasnt that bad!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

The surfer rescued from the stormy sea off Hastings yesterday - wot the heck!"! And the lifeboat nearly capsized wot the absolute heck!£?

 

[Fade and Die]

must just be what she used to having her caretaker team on site

mental tho.. especially round here.. wasnt that bad!

It’s a new block block that’s just been finished. They have hauled the builder in to do checks.

 

[USER1999]

The surfer rescued from the stormy sea off Hastings yesterday - wot the heck!"! And the lifeboat nearly capsized wot the absolute heck!£?

Lifeboats are designed to be ok the wrong way up. Surfers, windsurfers, kite boarders, these are the conditions they wait for. If they are any good, these conditions are just amazing.

Til it goes a bit wrong.

 

[Wolf]

Saturday night we stayed over in Lincoln - very nice small hotel on Steep Street - busiest tourist street in Lincoln I guess. Sunday morning breaks wild and windy. Hardly a soul about. We walked up to the cathedral (spectacular indeed) - and around noon it was empty...bar a few lonely folks like us wandering about thinking how vast and awesome the place was, and felt, when empty...

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Did you enjoy the walk up steep hill.. My youngest absolutely hates it when we walk up bless her constantly moans her legs are to small to get to the top ?

But it's a mighty fine site the cathedral when your up there. Another's good view is up at Bomber command looking directly across the old flight paths tonthe cathedral.

 

[Smiffy]

A busy time for fence panel putter uppers

 

[Orikoru]

I haven't watched it yet but Robin Matthews-Williams looks to have posted a video of him playing in the storm on Sunday. That should be good.